Apparently I'm now "adjust your bike because belly gets in the way" weeks pregnant.

Which seems to be the same week as "4 km bike ride with kids is a workout".

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Fun with forms: filling out the intake form for the hospital I'd like* to give birth in. One question is "how long did the births of previous children take?"

I do sincerely wonder if ANYONE can answer that in a way that's remotely useful for them. I certainly can't.

*well, not "like" like, I'd like to not be in the hospital for that, but it's the option I chose.

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I've had intermittent, somewhat painful contractions since yesterday afternoon, so, given that I want to go on vacation on Friday, I spent a bit of quality waiting time in the gyn office to get that checked out.

But all is well, it's just the "take magnesium, rest more, please don't carry your kids around" Braxton-Higgs type thing.

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I'm now "what? But I see practically nothing? Are you sure? Where are you hiding that baby?!" weeks pregnant, by the way 🙄

(That being rude aside, I don't really get it. I'm not fat, so my belly looks quite different than it did half a year ago?! But seriously, just stop it with the commenting on people's bodies already!)

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Heh, just realized that my baby is very much in tune with my gender neutral parenting approach: no one's been able to assign a gender yet because it never showed any genitals during ultrasounds 🙃

Also, I only saw just now that the doctor made a 3D image of its face and printed it out for me. And I'm just... that's just... I've never had a picture like that with the others. You can see the face, you can see that the eyes are open, it's like... a human? Whoa. 💙🥹

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Thanks for the good wishes. Still in a transverse position 🙄 but everything else is fine!

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On the way to a doctor's appointment. You can wish me luck for a non-transverse lie of the baby, because we're getting closer to the point when that's going to yield more appointments and trying to turn it... which is just annoying.

(Just kidding. If everything else is fine and it's still a transverse lie, whatever, maybe it'll turn on its own anyway.)

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Ah, it's "don't lie down flat on your back anymore" pregnancy week. Thanks for letting me know, body 😵‍💫

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K2: *puts head on my belly to sleep*

K3: *kicks from inside*

K2: *startles awake*

Owned by the unborn sibling...

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Okay, now it's three out of three times. But I could lie down in time and it's slowly getting better.

First test result was also good.

The glucose stuff (I got currant flavor) still tastes awful though...

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So, on to the gestation diabetes test. Let's see if I almost faint after drinking the glucose solution this time (so far it's 2 out of 2 times).

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So we told our kids.

K1's reactions: "So... K2 and I are... triplets?!", "That means on my fifth birthday* I have /two/ siblings?" and "I think you should name them [K2's name]"

K2's reaction: "No baby! Play [name friend]!"

*about three weeks after the estimated due date, so yeah, baby will be out then

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Maybe the nausea is finally getting a little better...

(And NO, brain, this ISN'T a bad sign. Remember we looked at the HCG concentration curve and saw how its maximum is around week 9 or 10? You're now at week 13, it HAS to get better at some point.)

(Next check-up is on Friday. Maybe I'm nervous already.)

(Can I feel some movement soon, please?)

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I'm also really nauseated because I went too long with food. At least I was clever enough to buy emergency crackers.

Two more weeks of this, according to experience and the shape of the HCG concentration curve.

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On my way to work again. Today's my first long day of this semester, as I have to teach until late afternoon. I'm a little scared because the nausea is worst in the afternoon and evening (yes, /I/ know it's called "morning sickness". My body apparently doesn't.).

Other than that, I look forward to meeting the students in the higher-level class I'm teaching. I like the first- and second-years, but those classes are fun too, not the least because they're smaller.

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So yeah, if all goes well, there will be a K3 with us in October or November.

We're happy. And I'm very tired and nauseous and asking myself what on earth I have done to myself AGAIN...

I'll use CNs to talk about it if I do, and hashtag #Pregnancy and #Baby2023 - mute away if reading about these things isn't what you want or can do right now. I know these topics are hard for some of you and I'm sorry about that. Life is just unfair in that regard.

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